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The British term is taken from Italian semibreve, itself built upon Latin semi-"half" and brevis "short." The American whole note is a calque of the German ganze Note. Some languages derive the name of the note from its round shape, such as Catalan rodona, French ronde, and Spanish redonda. The Greek name means "whole".
Getting its name from the Standard Club of Chicago where it originated in the early 1960s, [1] [3] the game is well suited to club and home play. [4] While the auction and the play of the hand are the same as in rubber bridge, Chicago has the following unique features: A rubber consists of exactly four deals.
Note 1: Using American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) methods, scoring is one point for each pair beaten, and one-half point for each pair tied. Note 2 : The rule of two matchpoints for each pair beaten is easy to apply in practice: if the board is played n times, the top result achieves 2 n −2 matchpoints, the next 2 n −4, down to zero.
In music, a double whole note (American), breve (British) or double note [1] [2] lasts two times as long as a whole note (or semibreve). It is the second-longest note value still in use in modern music notation. [2] The next longest notated note is the longa, which is double the length of the breve.
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